XYZ Racing Tarmac Rally Coilovers — Honda CIVIC TYPE-R FK2 2015-2017

The FK2 Civic Type R was Honda’s first turbocharged Type R and the first to wear adaptive dampers from the factory – a clever piece of kit on smooth circuits, but a liability the moment you point the nose at a broken B-road or a sealed special stage. The Tarmac Rally coilover from XYZ Racing throws that compromise out and replaces it with a chassis tuned around impact absorption first, body control second.

For an FK2 that’s destined for sealed-stage rally use or aggressive fast-road work on patchy UK tarmac, this is the spec that lets the front axle keep biting through compressions where the OEM dampers would either crash through or float over the top. The 306bhp K20C1 has the torque to load the front-end hard mid-corner; the Tarmac Rally damping is built to keep the contact patch planted while that’s happening.

What this coilover does for your 2015-2017 Honda Civic Type-r FK2

The FK2 carries a lot of its mass over the front axle, and on rough surfaces the standard adaptive setup runs out of travel quickly – you feel it as the nose skipping wide on mid-corner bumps. The Tarmac Rally valving is built around absorbing those single big hits without unloading the tyre, so the front end stays composed through compressions instead of pattering. Increased traction through bumpy apex sections means you can carry more entry speed without provoking the FK2’s well-known understeer balance. Ride-height adjustment lets you set a stance that works for sealed stages without scrubbing the splitter on every crest, and the damping holds shape through repeat heat cycles rather than fading after the first long stage. Body control is firm but never brittle – the kit is engineered to suppress shock at the body, not transmit it.

About the Tarmac Rally coilover

The Tarmac Rally is purpose-valved for sealed-stage rally and broken-tarmac use, drawing on XYZ Racing’s own rally programme settings rather than a generic circuit baseline. The damper is built to absorb the jolt of big single impacts – kerbs, expansion joints, mid-corner ruts – and convert that energy into controlled wheel travel rather than shock fed back through the chassis. The result is a damper that keeps the tyre in contact with the surface when a stiffer track-focused setup would skip, and that’s where the lap-time (or stage-time) sits on real-world UK tarmac. Settings are derived directly from XYZ’s tarmac rally racing experience, which is why the spring rates, damper graphs, and bump/rebound balance read differently from the circuit-oriented kits in the same catalogue.

Fitment for the Honda CIVIC TYPE-R FK2 (2015-2017)

This coilover kit is specified for the FK2-generation Civic Type R, covering the 2015-2017 UK production run with the 2.0-litre K20C1 turbo. Chassis-code-matched front and rear units; trim and configurator options handled in the spec selector below.

What buyers also search for

• Honda Civic Type R FK2 rally coilover for sealed-stage use
• FK2 Civic suspension upgrade for broken UK tarmac
• Civic Type R FK2 coilover with bump absorption for rough roads
• Honda FK2 fast-road and tarmac rally damper spec
• Civic Type R 2015-2017 coilover with rally-derived valving

Pick your Tarmac Rally spec below – spring rate, ride height, and damping configuration all live in the configurator.